Adult. Called a first time after landing in a tree, then went silent for a long time. Played back its own call briefly, after which it responded, then flew off and called again upon landing ca. 20m away (this recording)

I heard a distant Great Spotted Cuckoo in dry thornveld bordering the dam, and played a brief section of its calls. Immediately the bird flew right to me and unexpectedly landed in a tree only about 3 m away (hence the very loud part in the middle of the recording). The cuckoo was then attacked by a Fork-tailed Drongo, which managed to chase it off. Everything after 00:14 is the drongo.

Bird seen and heard calling from an Acacia Karoo tree in the late afternoon in Acacia woodland. The first three notes are their regular advertising call notes but then it goes into a raucous chattering after that.